“No matter how cool [Apple’s iPhone] exchange support and the enterprise play is, that news is dwarfed by the other, much more important announcement – the iPhone SDK. The powerful platform that Apple uses to create beautiful applications for MacOS and iPhone is now completely open,” Alex Iskold writes for ReadWriteWeb. “This platform is a game changer.”
“Since the early days, Apple embraced a language called Objective-C – an object-oriented flavor of the popular procedural language. When Jobs returned to Apple, one of the early smart decisions was to ditch the old operating system in favor of Unix,” Iskold writes.
MacDailyNews Take: Actually, that’s why Apple bought Steve Jobs’ NeXT; for the Unix-based OS. So, the decision actually predates Jobs’ return, although, obviously, it was Jobs who somehow convinced dumbass Gil Amelio to do something completely different for once and actually make a smart decision.
Iskold continues, “This move allowed Apple to instantly tap into serious programmers while retaining a beautiful and simple UI… Smart, disciplined and mature.”
“Not all platforms are made equal,” Iskold writes. “First compare this offering with what Microsoft offered for Windows a while back. Redmond’s convoluted APIs, COM, OLE, and ActiveX still make developers shake their heads. Instead of cultivating elegance and simplicity, Microsoft pushed for complexity. Why? Because it kept exclusivity, kept people learning new weird stuff, kept people getting new certifications. But Apple’s culture and code is rooted in elegance and extreme simplicity.”
Iskold writes, “Apple has made this play flawlessly. The enterprise and SDK solutions will go hand-in-hand to propel the iPhone to be THE handheld device of the future. Ironically, the PC just got its final blow not from a MacBook (which has been on the rise too!), but from a small new computer. Apple got its revenge elegantly, relentlessly and creatively. The next era of computing will be dominated by Apple. Is this a good thing? Likely yes, and it is surely better than one dominated by Microsoft.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “since1985” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: “Why would he do that? He has to know that he can never win.” – Bill Gates on Steve Jobs’ return to Apple, as told to Robert X. Cringely during an unpublished 1999 interview for Vanity Fair.
Steve wins, game over!
Game’s not over till the fat ‘old lady’ (Balmer) swings.
it sure looks like Apple has won, and in this era they have in personal computing.
But I still feel something biting my hair, when it comes to the lack of competition.
I have a gut feeling that acer, asus, hp/compaq are getting together to create a new operating system that is seperated from Microsoft. Is it really that hard? Not really, they have so much cash, and theres so many Software engineering students whom have completed courses in OS … but end up twiddling their fingers with fixing up bugs from a website written in Java, and being paid penuts.
I’d probably bet on HP doing it first.
> Redmond’s convoluted APIs, COM, OLE, and ActiveX still make developers shake their heads
It even makes the heads of the people who created the crap in the first place spin.
I think that, more than competting with Microsoft, Apple competes with itself.
To compete with others leads to be barely better than competition. Compete with oneself leads to be better every day in every way compared with oneself, so it pushes up always.
Apple: Good fruit company
Microsoft: Shit happens
And that’s all I have to say about that.
MDN, how do you find this nonsense? This guy is obviously blogging from a psych ward in Cupertino. 97.5% of the world’s computer users remain super-passionate about using Windows and for good reason. Developers have been generating fantastic software built around Microsoft’s meticulous, friendly and open tools. Who’s gonna write software for the 2.5% of proprietary expensive computers out there?
Microsoft won, Apple lost. Now we can move on to how the Zune will destroy the I-Pod.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don’t have to worry about money no more. And I said, that’s good! One less thing.
@bioness,
Does that mean we’re going back to the days of Radio Shack computers, and every maker doing their own OS?
My gut feeling is, if there are any new desktop OSes, they’ll be from China. Both as an attempt to prove their coding prowess, and to separate themselves from the American-headed systems.
That’s it man, game over man, Ballmer’s fscked!
Compete with oneself leads to be better every day in every way compared with oneself, so it pushes up always.
Not always. Look at some select automakers for a case in point.
Bad the notion you just gotta deploy the same vehicle, as several models across several brands, into the same competing market segment. Oh, then offer deep incentives to move these vehicles. WTF?!? It’s like Apple from the Performa/Centris/Quadra days.
Maybe the key is to compete with yourself, while not competing against…
Haha, Bioness, you make me laugh.
Is it really that hard? YES. Yes it is.
Well, now. A little game-changing platform that’s really OS X at its core. Maybe corporations will finally get it that IT droids don’t know best. Users can find the best tools and bring them in.
The only way Apple doesn’t win is if Apple quits. If another company doesn’t build the whole widget there can not be competition with Apple.
In order to respond to an Apple innovation, all the other hardware and software companies have to get ideas out of committee, into each others’ committees, out of each others’ committees again and then start a response. While they’re winding up to throw their punch, Apple changes the game to baseball. When the others all agree on a starting pitcher, Apple will be on the green with a six-footer for birdie. By the time the rest of the industry figures out what game to get ready for, Apple will own tech.
Apple is the only company building the whole widget. If you’re the only one doing something, you have no competition. Apple has to compete with themselves. There is no one else willing to get in the game.
“I have a gut feeling that acer, asus, hp/compaq are getting together to create a new operating system that is seperated from Microsoft.” – Bioness
Apple strategy has been planned for a very very long time, and they certainly are aware of what you wrote. They have a way around it:
Apple domination will be the same as in music. Remember, as the competition is trying to catch up, Apple “is not sitting doing nothing” as was saying Oppenheimer.
By the time the competition comes with their solution, Apple will be release the second generation of iPhone and iPod Touch. Not to forget a larger version of iPod Touch that includes eBook and handwritting.
What Apple is currently doing with those portable devices is very BIG. It’s the future. And you can be sure, they won’t make the same mistakes as in the past with the Mac.
@clunker
“Maybe the key is to compete with yourself, while not competing against…”
Stupid is as stupid does.
Oops. Forgot to mention. Vista Sucks.
bioness said: “I have a gut feeling that acer, asus, hp/compaq are getting together to create a new operating system that is seperated from Microsoft. Is it really that hard?”
bioness, you need to read the whole article. The first section is entitled “It’s the libraries, stupid!” wherein the writer states “”It is not the language, but the libraries that matter. Every time I hear developers talk about a new language and say it is by far the best one, I just shake my head. A new language is not going to be usable in today’s world unless all of the libraries are in place.”
He goes on to compare Apple’s “secret sauce” as being its software, a well-oiled machine. “While others have been inventing new languages and frameworks, Apple kept perfecting and building up its code.” … “In general, over the years Apple has ignored new languages and just stuck with its platform. Smart, disciplined and mature.”
@Bioness – you kinda forget that OSX is based on BSD. That took 20 years to refine. Full blown OSes are not straight forward.
Back in 2000 when OSX beta was released, I knew then Apple had something special on their hands. Raw yes, but so much potential.
I tried to convince a Linux fan of the advantages of OSX in 2001 but he didn’t get the advantages of having a good GUI and Unix together.
The evolution of Quicktime and their apps like iTunes etc have no competition. Everyone else is literally 3 years away and have no chance of catching up because Apple can develop software at a much faster pace.
The same goes for the iPod and iPhone. The war is not over it’s just starting.
@ ron: Game’s not over till the fat ‘old lady’ (Balmer) swings.
Ballmer’s a swinger?. EEEEEeeeeeewwwww.
MDN: Great to finally hear that take. You’ve been good about always reminding us about Michael Dell’s shut-Apple-down-and-give-the-money-back-to-the-investors quote and Steve Ballmer’s iPhone-won’t-get-any-market-share-no-way quote, that I’ve been wondering if you ever iCal’ed Bill Gate’s steve-jobs-must-know-he-can-never-win quote given to Robert X. Cringely (but never published).
That quote riles me up the most and reveals so much about both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Lately, every article I read about Apple’s success and progression in the marketplace and the rave reviews of their hardware and software, that quote is forefront in my mind. The gauntlet was thrown down by Bill … Steve Jobs seems to be good about making one eat his own words.
Apple has won the “mindshare.”
It’ll take a while longer for that to translate into market share.
The thing abut Microsoft was that users pretty much had no choice. They bought into it because it was the only game in town, and then found they were trapped by a monopoly. Apple, by contrast, is entering a field filled with competitors. If they somehow were to become the only game in town, it would be by sheer merit. It’s not as if there are no other players, and it’s not as if they don’t see Apple coming.
Zune Tang, “97.5% of the world’s computer users remain super-passionate about using Windows ” Yeah, umm Zune Tang, I don’t think that is correct. The number Windows users that are Super-Passionate is a lot smaller. Zune Tang, saying something like that you lose credibility and look foolish. I use both, I use both every single day, both systems have good points and bad, BUT, in general, I work on the windows side because I HAVE to and the Apple side because I WANT to. The Apple OS seems a lot more polished. That is just my observations, but I consider them probably more valid than any of yours because I actually USE both on a daily bases and am proficient at both.
As I have said before, Zune, if you want to play games, get a girlfriend….they play WAY more games and a lot more fun than anything you will on a computer.
@Bioness
No chance. Not one in a million. The better, and more realistic chance is that M$ adopts Linux. And if that happens then say goodbye to that platform.
Oh and to the other guy…”China”?!? You gotta be kidding, right? There’s a better chance of M$ adopting Linux than for ANY group from China producing a viable OS from SCRATCH!
LOL…absolutely nothing “original” has come out of China since the fork and gunpowder…unless you consider Copyright Infringement “original”! ’nuff said!
Zune Tang scores another victim. ZT, you are like a spider. Spinning your little webs and waiting for some unsuspecting moth to fly into it and start wriggling. Great sport, but I can’t believe you haven’t tired of it yet.
@Jim
Zune Tang is a regular here… He pops in every now an again to represent the unabashed and tormented world of windows… with sarcasm. We love the guy… its a joke.
sorry to inform the vast majority of you Apple does not want Micosoft to “lose”
It wants its fair share of the game it created say 10% will do …..
thanks
Ballmer’s a swinger?. EEEEEeeeeeewwwww.
No, swing. As in hung. By his Yahoo.
sorry to inform the vast majority of you Apple does not want Micosoft to “lose”
What happens when MS loses from its own folly?
Heh maybe Jobs will appear on a MS video screen and announce a stock deal.
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Why do you think Apple doesn’t spend their cash-hoard?
They’re waiting for it’s rise, and the market value of Microsoft to inevitably fall, so they can buy Microsoft outright.
Once bought, he’ll merge the 2 OS’s (read – delete Windows and replace it wholesale with OSX).
That is SJ’s plan, the ultimate humiliation of Microsoft and everything they stand for.
It’ll probably take the best part of 2 decades, but it will happen.
After that, SJ will open source the whole OS and then gladly retire, safe in the knowledge that we’ll then be well on the way to the Star Trek future we’ve all been working towards.
You heard it here first.
Zune Tang is my hero. Nothing more validates a Zune Tang rant than someone questioning his credibility and credentials.
Some day we’ll unmask ZT and find Phil Schiller. Maybe on the same day.
Zune Tang! I can’t believe you forgot “Suck it MAC dorks”!
Sheeeesh.
When Apple reach a certain figure, probably around 15%, it will be over. The M$ monopoly will be dead.
At 15% market share, they will be worth about the same as Micro$oft, because they make the HARDWARE too.
Add in the phone, the ipod and maybe some new ‘enterprise’ moves and thats all they will need to ‘dominate’.
Windoze will continue to decline, say 3% per year.
Puts them around 75% within 5 years.
At that point, the monopoly is finished and the game gets interesting.
Once a decline is rolling, its hard to stop.
I dont think Apple will get to 90% – I dont think anyone will ever do what M$ did – people are too smart now to fall for all that crap.
Computing is mature, the game is different. The iPhone is the way.
A new OS? Maybe Linux will finally be fixed by a commercial group, like HP and others. Certainly the Linux geeks are not going to do it – they actually believe desktop computing on Linux is ok – even though its like buying your car with no doors.
Writing a new OS will need a new discovery in processors, or some new impetus.
Where is that going to come from in a very mature, somewhat stagnant market?
Anyway, Apple IS the new impetus, it is the new OS.
At last, its changing. The world is no longer held hostage by the Borg!
Freedom!
Poor ol’ Gil. I still think callin’ the guy a dumbass is kinda harsh. I think he just got in over his head.
“Zune Tang, saying something like that you lose credibility and look foolish.”
I want you all to just look at that line, and read it a few times.
There, see? I made you smile.
At 15% market share, they will be worth about the same as Micro$oft, because they make the HARDWARE too.
At what point does Ballmer freak, again, and this time attempt to buy a major PC maker? You know, “embrace and extend” what Apple does…
Should make for great entertainment, as MS will already be short of cash after the Yahoo takeover. Gotta wonder how far Ballmer would deliberately dig MS into debt.
MS’s worst enemy is MS. Apple’s just making good business amid the wreckage.
Suck on that, MAC dorks.
Um, ChrissyOne —
Don’t you have to be a dumbass to get in that far over your head? Sometimes harsh is true.
Poor old Gil.
Poor ol’ Gil. I still think callin’ the guy a dumbass is kinda harsh. I think he just got in over his head.
Agreed. Gil inherited a mess worse than anyone expected. Kinda like the poor sap who’ll get the MS reins after Ballmer…
Anyway, I challenge the naysayers to propose how they would’ve done things better/differently than Gil did. And no, buying NeXT and passing everything to Steve and Avie doesn’t count; you have to do this yourself.
I’d hate to know where we’d be today, had Apple pressed on with Classic or Copland, or bought Be instead.
“You know, ’embrace and extend'”
You left out extinguish. A vital component of the MS business strategy. The trail of decomposing competitors and former partners is evidence.
Don’t you have to be a dumbass to get in that far over your head? Sometimes harsh is true.
If you we’re nominated to Apple’s top job, would you accept and give it your best, or would you decline because it was too much for you?
Apple isn’t the only company that rotted from the inside out. By the time the stench gets to the top, it’s usually too late.
Interesting question, that. I’d take it, I guess. Okay, maybe dumbass is too harsh.
But Gil is definitely in no need of sympathy.
If you want to place blame, Sculley and Spindler were far worse than Gil Amelio. John Sculley tops the list. I’ll bet he still has the taste of Bill Gates in his mouth.
Gil Amelio wrote the whitepaper on Apple’s strategy that Jobs is executing now. Apple was in a horrible position back then and Amelio tried to make things work out. Hat’s off to good work by Jobs; keep up the good work.
“Never start a fight. But ALWAYS finish it!”
Capt. John Sheridan
Babylon 5
For companies that want to make their own operating system: It is very hard to do so. It is easier to develop hardware than good software. It takes decades of development and updating to create a good operating system – particularly a mature one where a lot of the bugs are ironed out. This is why Apple has such a large lead on other manufacturers. This is why other manufacturers are trying to use Linux or some other off-the shelf OS – where the source code is open. The problem is that the code is not theirs. The original code has limitations to work around such as with drivers in Linux. Thus a lot of work still has to be done to make it workable. Yet it won’t have the high level features of OS X.
Taking advantage of dropping hardware prices, Intel expects to plug its newest Atom chips into desktops that will be available later this year from under $200.
Intel expects an Atom chip, code-named Diamondville, to be used in fanless desktop computers designed for basic tasks like surfing the Internet or viewing standard-definition DVDs. The company expects the systems to be priced in the $199 to $250 range.
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$249 Mac nano anyone???!?
@ChrissyOne
I’m just impressed that someone spelled the word ‘lose’ with just a single ‘o’.
I keep saying they should have named the iPhone the “Mac Mobile.” It is much more than a phone, it is a portable Mac with a phone capability.
Sorry everyone. Gary’s leash really needs to be fixed. Anyhow he’s really nice once you get to know him. Oh, gotta go!
GAAaaaaaRrrYYYyyyyyyy!! Come on boy! Come on!
Upwards of 95% of Windows users have absolutely no awareness of stories like this and they absolutely don’t care and would never consider switching to a Mac – still seen by them as a toyish alternative to a real computer.
I know of what I speak – I’m surrounded by several hundred of these people every day at the office. If you say to them they are using an OS-limited platform, they just look at me like I have just spoken some kind of nonsense.
Jobs said, “For Apple to win, Microsoft does not have to lose.”
He did not say that they would not lose, its just that they do not have to. LOL
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Microsoft keeps shooting itself in its own foot. A billion here, a billion there. Hey if they kept all in the bank, at some point they could make billions just in the interest. Then they could give MS stuff away (people might not take it, but ,, well you see.
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Microsoft also has the option to take a big breath and develop a good OS. A new OS. An OS that is not focused on keeping MS in power only.
They could, but you and I know that they most likely will not. LOL
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bioness
Interesting thought. If HP wakes up, they might realize they already have an OS that can replace Windows, applications and dedicated followers. Open VMS would make a great replacement OS for Windows. In many ways Windows is just a subset of Open VMS for personal computer market. As Apple found Next as starting point of MacOSX, MS or HP can use VMS as starting point for Windows OSX, or may be OSL.
Microsoft keeps shooting itself in its own foot. A billion here, a billion there.
$45 billion for a has-been portal…
I examined 10 factors that put Apple in an unassailable position in the mobile platform wars and reviewed the weaknesses of iPhone competitors in:
Who can beat iPhone 2.0?
http://counternotions.com/2008/03/10/iphone2-competitors/
Yup, just what I was thinkin’ ChrissyOne. The Gilster filled in pretty well after the disaster that was “The Diesel”.
Remember, no matter where you go – – there you are.
@ Macromancer
Well if you’re referring to me doing that the other day, then
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@ Ampar
Re: Scully
Oh the fetid stench of Scully…
Who r u callin dumbass?
“John Sculley tops the list. I’ll bet he still has the taste of Bill Gates in his mouth.”
Ewwww!!!!!!!
The next era of computing will be dominated by Apple.
I don’t think so, don’t flame me, hear this Mac user out
Apple does not play in the “low margin” computing business where most of the computing buys are made.
Microsoft is using Windows as a loss leader in some cases to push Office and their other worthless software.
Dell and HP make PC’s that are stripped down and customizable for the huge business market, saving huge amounts of money. Apple only sells premium or near premium machines that make the most profit, not touching machines that will only add a few percentage points in profit.
Most of the software of the world is still Windows based, which reinforces the cycle of buying Windows machines which reinforces training in Windows in schools and so on.
One can customize most any Windows box, but only a few models of Apple boxes.
The list goes on and on and on. But unless, by some freak chance in hell. That computers can be made so inexpensively that they are disposable, that Apple will shine like the star it is.
By the way
I’ve got to test the new AT&T;3G with my laptop. It’s fast!
So expect a new 3G iPhone and even a MacBook Air with AT&T;3G.
Should be awesome!! If you can afford $3000 and $100 a month that is.
@Mad Mac Maniac
Apple already dominates this era of computing. It merely depends on your metrics. If you measure by “market share,” Apple is within spitting distance of HP or Dell – and gaining ground rapidly. Apple’s market share is always measured against Windows. That’s ludicrous.
More importantly, Apple dominates in “mind share.” Everything we’ve come to expect from computers can be traced back to Apple bringing that functionality to the market. The whole world of tech is waiting with bated breath for the next Apple announcement. When Steve Jobs farts, the press looks for clues in it.
“Market share” is a useless and meaningless yard stick. Apple has complete freedom to innovate, no debt, $20 billion dollars in the bank, and the whole planet leaning forward to see what their next move will be.
I’m not sure how you measure domination, but I’d settle for that if it was me.
@too much coffee
“A new OS? Maybe Linux will finally be fixed by a commercial group, like HP and others. Certainly the Linux geeks are not going to do it – they actually believe desktop computing on Linux is ok – even though its like buying your car with no doors.”
I suspect you’re right. In fact, as we know, Dell are already dabbling their toes in the water. They don’t really push what they’re offering — do they not want to antagonize MS too much, one wonders? — but it’s there:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu
But I can imagine that the OEMs might be getting a bit sick of acting as MS’s cash cow. The big OEMs — particularly HP — are none too pleased with MS right now, because MS promised them Vista would mean lots of sales of expensive new high-end machines and they’d target their specs and advertising to ensure that. *BUT* … MS the went back on the deal, doubled-crossed HP, and struck a new deal with Intel to say that low-end processors were OK for Vista, so that Intel could meet its targets.
Dell’s pissed off with MS’s Vista nonsense, too. See here:
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_002570DE00740E18002573FE006B7266.html
So, yeah, I can imagine some of the OEMs would dearly like to move to Linux and stop getting shafted by MS. Antagonizing MS is a big risk, though, as so many of the OEMs’ customers, not knowing any better, expect Windows and so they have to have it for them. MS can make the terms under which they let the OEMs have Windows very, very painful indeed.
“desktop computing on Linux is … like buying your car with no doors.”
That’s something of an exaggeration. If it’s coming pre-installed no way will it be like that. If you download a Linux distro and burn it to CD yourself then try to run it on X random hardware then, sure, you might find it won’t recognize your display or something. And what average user wants to edit config. files by hand? But when an OEM distributes Linux it makes sure it runs OK on the hardware it’s selling you. It’ll be set up and ready-to-go. And adding new software is as easy as running a package manager.
Of course, the window-manager and — importantly — the desktop-environments usually installed with Linux distros (GNOME and KDE) are a fair way short of what Apple’s currently offering in looks and usability. But that’s another discussion. Here we’re talking not “Are the doors on the car?” but “Would you prefer a Volkswagen or a BMW?”. If you want really slick, really good-looking, really usable, sure, you buy a Mac. But a modern Linux distro that’s deliberately oriented towards ordinary users, like Ubuntu, is pretty good — certainly comparable with Windows in use and probably slightly quicker on the same hardware.
Companies go through many stages of evolution. One model goes as follows:
Start-up > Market Orientated > Optimised (Portfolio) > Turn-around > Liquidation
The most successful companies find their way into the ‘Optimised (Portfolio)’ stage and then make every effort to remain solidly in that stage as risk can be minimised for maximum value extraction. Where they do overshoot into Turn-around, if they survive the severe cut backs and re-orientation, they generally re-enter in the latter stages of Market Orientated.
Each stage requires a different style of leadership:
> Start-up – Entrepreneurial
> Market Orientated – Niche
> Optimised (Portfolio) – Portfolio of products, services and businesses
> Turn-around – Financial Controller
> Liquidation – The Corporate Auctioneer and Gravedigger
However, there are good leaders and bad. And mixing styles doesn’t work e.g., the Financial Controller style isn’t exactly going to make a start-up jump. This is even before factoring in the personal traits of the CEO.
Over the long term, we’ve seen Apple go through the first four stages. The two Steves started the business up. Scully was brought in to get traction through marketing (his approach being to go ‘grey’ and create ‘boxes and towers’ to suit business and to compete more closely with traditional peecees); lost SJ; and then moved Apple into the Optimised (Portfolio) by introducing the Newton. Unfortunately, as history shows, this move was premature and Apple started to hemorrhage leading to the appointment of Mr Amelio.
Gil Amelio is the true unsung hero in all this. If he hadn’t pulled off the gargantuan task of helping Apple survive day-to-day and more to the point, bring back SJ, the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, MBA, this bulletin board and all the above opinions (as well as my tuppence worth) wouldn’t exist!
The best thing is that Gil as a leader in the Turn-around stage not only knew what to do but also knew HIS limitations as a turn-around specialist to know when to step out and hand off the company to someone better equipped to carry it forward! Remember, SJ in the meantime had also matured as a leader so was caming back to Apple with lots more in leadership skills to carry Apple forward.
And as you all know, SJ came back with a plan (some say based on Gil’s white paper) that killed the grey boxes and the Newton (I was gutted when he did this but it made sense) to place Apple right where any CEO would give his eye-teeth for his company to be – the Optimised (Portfolio) stage. In Apple’s case this mainly comprises a limited number of ‘platforms’:
> Software – MacOSX, iWork, iLife etc
> Hardware – MacPro, MacMini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, iTouch, AppleTV and all the connectivity/WiFi stuff
> eCommerce – iTunes (and a lot more to come)
SJ has set a course for Apple where it competes with all and yet with none. Since no other competitor to Apple (not even MS) delivers all the above and they are unable to create ‘multiple touch-points’ with a consumer as effectively as Apple. One other company that does this fairly successfully is Virgin which has created ‘multiple touch-points’ with its customers through the record stores, financial services, health clubs, airline etc. The real challenge with this strategy is ensuring high quality and consistency which explains SJ’s meticulous, verging on obsessive, attention to detail and his controlling nature. Hence the notion that Apple is really competing with itself – the one that existed 24hrs ago.
As I’ve said in prior posts, Apple understands Purple Cow to the extent that now it, itself, is a Purple Cow! Think that one through Seth Godin!
My tuppence worth.
” If you say to them they are using an OS-limited platform, they just look at me like I have just spoken some kind of nonsense.”
You have, Macs can’t run OpenVMS, Unicos or a dozen other OSs. Say what you mean, PCs can’t run OS-X. If you don’t want to run OS-X (like many people) then it’s not a problem.
Don’t expect people in the real world to understand MDNs catch phrases.
Well if 97.5% of computers are using windoze they have a way to go as 100% of the world’s working computers use electricity.
I like it when someone uses reason and passion in the same sentence. I have to admit, Windows users must be super-passionate about hate, isn’t that what the operating system is about?
Then again, you only need about 2.5% of the world’s population to be passionate about love to keep the planet from near total destruction.
And finally for this little gem “Now we can move on to how the Zune will destroy the I-Pod.”
Yes, please do move on to it. You have been casting the “wait until the zune catches up” for so long that even the boy that cried wolf doesn’t believe you any more.
Your potential. Our passion.™
@ Mad Mac Maniac
If you consider cost of ownership and operating costs, Macs have already passed the cheap windows boxes on that score. The HP’s and the DELL’s wrung the cost out of the supply chain and took big hits on the loss leaders and tried to make up the difference on teaser home computer buyers. Mean while product failures rose through the roof but luckily trhey were able to sell the big corporations what seemed at the time to be lucrative service contracts. That is until the crap they were selling broke so often and needed so much phone support they shiupped all that stuff to India to maintain the profit margin and the quality of service and support suffered also.
The HP’s and the DELL’s long ago shifted the focus to the high end server market and populated a lot of server farms to fule the dot com boom. When boom went bust there was a lot of inventory going for pennies on the dollar which took some time fot rhe industry to flush out. But even when Apple was still slinging hot G5’s the cost and power of the Mac product line was arguably better than what Intel was offering in the server market at the time and way cheaper. If IBM had not reneged of the roadmap there might have been a multi core G6 copper based 45nm processors runniing at 4 Ghz by now.
I think someone needs to get zune tang a breath mint or two… he is speaking out his ass again.
You are one ignorant dumbass. I bet it’s ballmer himself or a ballmer prodigy.
Ballmer and prodigy should never be used in the same sentence. Now Ballmer and PROTEGE makes sense…
Oh, and Zune Tang snares another hapless victim…
The whole idea of Apple dominating the, “…next era of computing…”, is something we can still only wish for – as well as buy Macs and other Apple products of course.
Also, I hope that “domination” this time around does not mean getting much more than 50%± market share. It’s a constant in nature [and certainly the business world] that when one species rules by to high a margin then no one really benefits, including the overly dominate species, (as I hope MS is about to prove). I want to beleive that Apple can get a good chunk of the market before uncle Stevo leaves (if that’s what Apple is trying to do – which is still a question), but I hope it gets there with good healthy competition fully in-tow.
ROFL, man you fanbois can buzz around from one logic point to the next, totally skirting the real world. Thats it, keep spewing the party line. der Fuhrer Jobs would have it no other way.
When you start thinking on your own then you can start understanding the real issue that is the PC market and the monopoly that is Microsoft!!!